You probably mix up the terms legato and portamento (or glide or slew) The
term for the "continuous pitch slide" is portamento. Legato (i.e. gate
permanent "on" in the modular world) can be combined with or without
portamento/glide/slew. To be honest I don't know what's the difference
between portamento and glissando.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> Florian thanks for clarifying this aspect, as usual you’re very precise.
> Indeed, legato doesn’t exactly match the meaning… but it’s not
> that far. I used the term legato referring (in my mind) to any
> possible physical instruments closer to the ribbon: a fretless
> keyboard, the likes of a double bass keyboard. In that case,
> legato performs a continuous pitch slide (faster or slower,
> according to desired effect) from one (fretless) step to the next
> (fretless) step. And of course, the gate is necessarily high,
> just like it is high when the same action is performed on the ribbon.
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> By the way, as discovered by myself in the last paragraph of my
> previous message, there’s no (logical) way to have both the above
> mentioned feature (call it legato, continuous pitch slide…) and a
> given quantized scale “at the same time”.
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> Again, sorry for having raised an illogical issue…
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> Best wishes,
> dxx
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> Il giorno 25 lug 2017, alle ore 09:50, Florian Anwander
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> Hi Diego
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> Am 24.07.2017 um 20:28 schrieb Diego Ragnini diegora@...
> [Doepfer_a100]:
> > continuous pitch movement (i.e. legato between the notes),
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> I think the problem of your explanation is, that you mismatch wordings.
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> Legato is not a wording to describe pitch changes! The easiest
> explanation is given with CV and Gate. "Legato" means: CV changes in
> steps while the Gate still is high. "Continous pitch movement" means,
> that there are no steps in the change of the CV, but it does not say,
> whether the Gate is high or low.
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> So again the question: what do you want Continous pitch change or
> stepped pitch changes with no gate interruption
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> Florian
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